Word: hubbardism
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...other ceremonies dedicated to the art of small talk. But last Friday there was a different sort of audience in the Shepard Room. About fifty serious looking middle-aged men and women, plus a few curious students, were there to hear a speech on Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard...
...Hubbard was not scheduled to speak. Instead, there was a reddish-colored tape recorder sitting at one end of the room, watched over by a young man in a neat blue suit. On the tape was recorded the voice of Dianetics' founder, L. Ron Hubbard...
Promptly at eight o'clock the young man looked up and, by way of introduction, announced that Hubbard has a "unusual ability" to communicate his personality by means of his voice alone. Reels started whirring and the listeners waited breathlessly...
Suddenly the tape recorder cheerily exclaimed: "We've got a handy jim-dandy supersonic vibrater coming up." According to Hubbard's voice just after the Second World War an American washing-machine company developed a supersonic vibrator that would dry clothes. Few of the machines were sold, however, because housewives complained that they "felt terrible around those things." However, after the company had changed its washing-machine's wave-length, users of its product felt "wonderful." "We're going to put one of those vibrators outside our offices," said the tape recorder," so people will feel wonderful when they...
There followed an explanation of the connection between mental health and the supersonic vibrator. "This tone scale," explained Hubbard's voice in measured phrases, "has an actual vibration rate; we can't measure it in Theta. Just where are the vibration rates in Mest? OK! Go black and blow the secondary--you make him vibrate and so he's there...